S1 images celebrate human space flight day

Sentinel-1B / C-SAR / IW DV / GRD acquired on 31 March 2017 from 01:52:05 to 01:52:30 UTC
Sentinel-1A / C-SAR / IW DV / GRD acquired on 30 March 2017 at 23:26:14 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): land, launchpad, Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Jiuquan, China
Fig. 1 - Location of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakh steppe - VV-VH-NDI(VH,VV) colour composite
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Fig. 2 - Baikonur, launchpad of Soyuz spacecraft used by all human spaceflights to the ISS since 2012
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Fig. 3 - Location of the Jiuquan Launch Center in Inner Mongolia, China
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Fig. 4 - Jiuquan, launchpad of Shenzhou missions, the other program of manned spaceflights active in 2017
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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